Another protest to Landry station
Irish-Montrealer and tireless self-promoter Donovan King weighs in on CBC against naming the Griffintown REM station for Bernard Landry, although his position is carefully stated against Landry’s anti-immigrant views, not his politics – and I’m not sure you’ve been able to call the city’s old Irish working class “immigrants” since about 1850.
qatzelok 10:56 on 2019-11-20 Permalink
Landry’s family were Acadian refugees who settled in Quebec in 1770. So he’s not must less “immigrant” than many starving Irish refugees were.
david100 20:12 on 2019-11-21 Permalink
Yeah, his family has only been here for 250 years.
Also, Landry wasn’t anti-immigrant at all. Not really clear to me why anglos are always promoting this idea that [insert PQ leader] is anti-immigrant because they’re anti-Canada. The don’t believe in your political project (Canada), that doesn’t mean that they want to establish Dachau up in Chicoutimi and force people to wear maple leaves on their chests in public.